But art thou willing now to own
Thou empty, self deceiving man,
The faith, like thine, which is not shewn
By works, is false, and dead, and vain,
A carcase destitute of breath,
Which drags thee down to endless death!
But art thou willing now to own
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “But art thou willing to know, O empty man, that faith without works is dead?” (Gr.)—[James] ii. 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 169.
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